Ski Mask the Slump God hints at GTA 6 soundtrack inclusion

Ski Mask the Slump God’s Instagram claim has sent GTA fans back into soundtrack mode: he said his music and XXXTentacion’s tracks will be in Grand Theft Auto 6. That is a strong clue, but it is still not a confirmation, and Rockstar has not announced any GTA VI soundtrack details.

That silence is not unusual. Rockstar’s Newswire is the company’s official channel for announcements, trailer launches, and soundtrack details, and the GTA VI pages there have focused on the game’s setting, trailers, and release-date updates instead of radio station reveals. Rockstar has already laid out the game’s core fantasy: Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos are caught in a criminal conspiracy stretching across Leonida, Rockstar’s version of Florida, with Vice City at the center of the map and “Vice City and beyond” as the promise.

If Ski Mask’s claim holds, it would fit the world Rockstar is building. Leonida calls for a soundtrack that sounds like South Florida, not just a generic hit parade, and that is exactly where Ski Mask the Slump God and XXXTentacion come in. Billboard places Ski Mask in hip-hop coverage and has noted his collaboration history with XXXTentacion. Billboard also reported that XXXTentacion, born Jahseh Onfroy, was fatally shot in Deerfield Beach, Florida, in Broward County, which ties him even more tightly to the region GTA 6 is mining for tone and identity.

Rockstar has done this before. The original Grand Theft Auto: Vice City leaned hard into place-specific music, with nine radio stations plus a custom station for a total of 103 songs, later packaged as a seven-disc official box set in 2002. That soundtrack was part of why Vice City felt so distinct, from the beach to the swamps and from the glitz to the ghetto. A Leonida soundtrack built around modern Florida rap would follow the same playbook for a new era.

Rockstar has also already shown how much its music choices can move attention. The first GTA VI trailer used Tom Petty’s “Love Is a Long Road,” and after the second trailer arrived, NME reported that the song’s Spotify streams jumped 36,979 percent. That is the real signal here: Rockstar’s soundtrack choices do not just decorate the game, they help define it. If Ski Mask is right, GTA 6 may be steering even harder into a Florida identity that uses local artists, not just famous names, to sell Vice City’s return.